The Monroe D. Ray Chapter of the American Political Items Collectors will sponsor a political campaign button show and sale Saturday, featuring presidential, political, military, women's suffrage, labor history, World's Fair, advertisting and general Americana collectibles.

This is the 36th year the show has been held at the First United Methodist Church. Material to be offered includes buttons, ribbons, posters and broadsides, post cards, textiles, china, coins and tokens, glassware, rare books, autographs and photography, coordinator Bren Price said in a press release. Presidential hopeful pins for the 2008 campaign will also be available.

On-site appraisals will be offered to the general public and on-the-spot auctions of related material may be conducted for a nominal fee from 9 a.m. to noon.

The show has items dating back from George Washington to this year's candidates, ranging in price from a couple dollars to a few thousand. Price said there's a lot of affordable pins, such as William McKinley pins for about $10.

Price, who has been coordinating the event for the past 20 years, said the most interesting items he personally has collected are an invitation for Mrs. Millard Fillmore to the inaugural ball of Zachary Taylor and a piece of cloth that was part of a run of cloths made in 1889 in Auburn's Logan Silk Mills for Mrs. Benjamin Harrsion's gown.

“It's an interesting piece of local history,” Price said.

If you go

What: Political button show

When: 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, May 3

Where: First United Methodist Church, 99 South St., Auburn

Cost: $3 admission for adults, free for students

Info: Call (716) 630-7073